The behavior of the transverse momentum fluctuations with the centrality of the collision shown by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data is naturally explained by the clustering of color sources. In this framework, elementary color sources\char22{}strings\char22{}overlap forming clusters, so the number of effective sources is modified. These clusters decay into particles with mean transverse momentum that depends on the number of elementary sources that conform each cluster, and the area occupied by the cluster. The transverse momentum fluctuations in this approach correspond to the fluctuations of the transverse momentum of the particles produced by the different clusters, and they behave essentially as the number of effective sources.
Transverse momentum fluctuations and percolation of strings
E. Ferreiro,F. D. Moral,C. Pajares
Published 2003 in Physical Review C
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2003-03-17
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